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New AI field signal Resource 22h ago
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OSF open science framework resource

OSF

6 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Cat Hicks Rachel Coldicutt
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Opportunity & adoption

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“This pre-print that was doing the rounds the other day is a useful touchpoint on this osf.io/preprints/ps... as is dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...”

Questions & unknowns

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“I think this is the paper? it's a preprint osf.io/preprints/ps... The questions are media trivia questions, which aren't exactly judgment questions. Presenting "AI" that's forced to be incorrect basically just tests whether participants trust it to be a loo…”

6 experts discussed this · 40 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: Okay, fellow AI/sociotechnical researchers, I'm looking for a name for something but can't find anything in my lit searches: is there a term for the phenomenon where someone has false confidence in…
Rachel Coldicutt: It's not the same as either the Dunning-Kruger Effect or cognitive offloading: I want to describe the what happens when you have both overconfidence in the technology AND in your own skills
Rachel Coldicutt: I mean maybe it doesn't yet have a name.
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Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
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human-in-loop fatigue essay

The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired

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Cat Hicks Gilles Louppe By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) esb.lol

“I think what's sort of funny about this stuff is how everyone writes about software & dopamine & AI writes "I have discovered a thing" when it is extremely recycling so like this piece I saw going around: pydantic.dev/articles/the... (lol @ "That loss is re…”

“Hey look at this * Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw... * The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired pydantic.dev/articles/the... * HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs arstechnica.com/gadget…”

2 experts discussed this · 14 posts
Cat Hicks: I just think Dopamine Nation isn't a good basis for a theory of all complex behavior at scale
Cat Hicks: What a coincidence that a massively viral book pushing a single puritanical message about "rewards" perfectly coincided with everybody online explaining that the answer to everything is a "dopamine…
Cat Hicks: Feeling left out, told it's passé
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Established AI field signal Resource 10d ago
informed-patient GitHub skills repo

informed-patient/informed-patient/skills/informed-patient/references/symptom-inventory-methodology.md at main · DrCatHicks/informed-patient

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Cat Hicks

“I won't show you all the demographic back and forth, but I'll show you just how easy it is to make an AI-administered survey good, even with the stupid AI tone ("honest" lol), you can dramatically improve LLM output with a good harness Here are inventory in…”

2 experts discussed this · 30 posts
Cat Hicks: I found the "OMG AI ISN'T SEARCH WE LOSE SOMETHING INEXPRESSIBLE ABOUT THE HUMAN SPIRIT IF WE'RE NOT USING THE SPECIFIC GOOGLE DOT COM I MADE MY FANCY TECH CAREER ON DON'T LOOK TOO CLOSELY YOU'LL R…
Berna Devezer: I found the "OMG AI ISN'T SEARCH WE LOSE SOMETHING INEXPRESSIBLE ABOUT THE HUMAN SPIRIT IF WE'RE NOT USING THE SPECIFIC GOOGLE DOT COM I MADE MY FANCY TECH CAREER ON DON'T LOOK TOO CLOSELY YOU'LL R…
Cat Hicks: I put the exact same stupid but very human query into both
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 15d ago
Khanmigo edtech AI tutor dreams fail

RIP Khanmigo & Edtech Industry Dreams of AI Tutors

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Cat Hicks

“danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmi...”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
brennan: oh cool! I know a lot of teachers who are basically doing this already, nice to have the curriculum stuff built in and some hand-holding around it all
Cat Hicks: imho it's going to be very interesting to compare whatever happens here to, say, the khanmigo approach
Cat Hicks: danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmi...
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3 experts · 7 posts · 5d ago
Cat Hicks tweety fish Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Cat Hicks: I think I would believe everybody's complaints about AI taking over writing more if people actually went out of their way to engage in and share and make visible complex and interesting writing in …
Cat Hicks: I've been writing in public in tech for a while and let me tell you. Didn't need AI to get the endless and constant pressure to just sand off all the edges and make an SEO and social media flattene…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 8d ago
Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Adam L
Cat Hicks: To be charitable it's a hard thing to study in the context of MUCH research having design problems. To be uncharitable they should try a lot harder with the luxury they have of being people funded …
Adam L: maybe at some point one of these studies showing people using AI outsource critical judgment to their cognitive detriment won't turn out to have obvious experimental design problems but so far it's…
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2 experts · 7 posts · 10d ago
Cat Hicks Adam L
Adam L: It's a lot like the pro-stick shift arguments on this site the other day: it's an aesthetic and emotional argument, masquerading as facts. Automatic shifting has been better than manual for years, …
Adam L: Many of the anti-AI people are pro stick shift, which 🤔🤔🤔
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2 experts · 3 posts · 16d ago
Cat Hicks Arseny Khakhalin
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Arseny Khakhalin: Wait, why did it start to decline even before we got a thingie to help us?..
Arseny Khakhalin: Ahh, that's right, I remember it now, thank you! I read about it at some point, about the friction and culture erosion. Makes sense!
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